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I'm a Kansas City, Missouri-based author, blogger, Fortean researcher, and occasional speaker. For biographical detail, visit my other website.
Please address all email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. And yes, I'm on Twitter.
(Masthead by Araqinta.)
Like this blog? Drop a couple bucks in the tip jar and I'll dispatch nanobots to stimulate your brain's pleasure center. Karmic, isn't it?
Welcome to the official blog of Mac Tonnies.
I'm a Kansas City, Missouri-based author, blogger, Fortean researcher, and occasional speaker. For biographical detail, visit my other website.
Please address all email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. And yes, I'm on Twitter.
(Masthead by Araqinta.)
My Books
"A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time."
--Herbie Brennan, author of Martian Genesis and The Atlantis Enigma
"Tonnies drops all predetermined opinions about Mars, and asks us to do the same."
--Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta
"I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in the search for extra-terrestrial artifacts, and the political intrigues that invariably accompany it."
--David Jinks, author of The Monkey and the Tetrahredron
"Mac Tonnies goes where NASA fears to tread and he goes first class."
--Peter Gersten, former Director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
And don't miss...
(Includes my essay "The Ancients Are Watching.")
Blurbage
"Posthuman Blues is good shit. You humans might like it too."
--John Shirley, author of Crawlers and Eclipse
"Mind-stretching."
--Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
". . . a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last."
--Feral Intelligence
"Frankly, there's nothing worse (aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon) than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.' Thankfully, there's none of that in Mac's world."
--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Mac Tonnies is undeniably a bit of a weirdo. Perhaps that's why I like him so much, though I agree with nearly nothing that he writes."
--John Brownlee
--John Shirley, author of Crawlers and Eclipse
"Mind-stretching."
--Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
". . . a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last."
--Feral Intelligence
"Frankly, there's nothing worse (aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon) than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.' Thankfully, there's none of that in Mac's world."
--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Mac Tonnies is undeniably a bit of a weirdo. Perhaps that's why I like him so much, though I agree with nearly nothing that he writes."
--John Brownlee
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- This video warms my heart.(Thanks to David Biedny.)
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- Found Image #19
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- Carbon dioxide output jumps to record level in 200...
- Minority Report Reality: 'Pre-Crime' Detector Show...
- Fake Disney movie trailer for the Sarah Palin stor...
- Rudy Rucker on sex and science fiction.
- I like it.
- io9 on the conceptual illustration of B. Börkur Ei...
- "It is 900 years after the Great Nuke and the role...
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- Exclusive: The methane time bombThe first evidence...
- Top 50 Hottest Sci-Fi GirlsI confess: while I'm an...
- Drop whatever you're doing and give Tag Galaxy a w...
- In my new column I decide to brave the gauntlet of...
- Blue sky thinking: The 'skyscraper' farms that cou...
- The interiors of Verner Panton are like participat...
- Found Image #18
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- MAVEN: NASA's post-Phoenix Mars probeThe craft, mo...
- File under "Perilously Close to Steampunk."Pinhole...
- Feeling bleak and existential? Meet Henri.
- Disgruntled by National Geographic's distinctly un...
- My latest from aboutSETI.com:The "Silent Invasion"...
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- Back from the graveIf human consciousness can real...
- Japan Prepares to Board the Space ElevatorWhen you...
- The spacewomen have arrived!
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- Gospelr: it's Twitter for fuckwits.
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- Greg Bishop is alive and well in Nova Scotia, wher...
- Things That Look Like Flying Saucers has been upda...
- Found Image #17
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- Hey, it's on the Internet. It must be true!Kal Ko...
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- When Atheists Attack (Sam Harris)However badly she...
- Here's a surprise: the Eurythmics cover The Smiths...
- Planet is running out of clean water, new film war...
- Rudy Rucker muses on the existential implications ...
- The Official Larva Art Appreciation PageFor some r...
- 3D Virtual Reality Environment Developed at UC San...
- Action-blindsight in healthy subjects after transc...
- Absorbing Orbs (Daniel Pinchbeck)In my talk on the...
- Quote of the day: "Yes, some über-geeks (Mac Tonni...
- I get letters. Oh, do I ever. Usually the crank ...
- Palin: average isn't good enough (Sam Harris)Ameri...
- Is it just me or does the grasshopper on top of th...
- Found Image #16
- Fascinating images of the Large Hadron Collider . . .
- Dumping Someone Is Hard, Even if That Someone Is a...
- Exoplanet 'circles normal star'The star and its co...
- Simple, yet oh-so-cool:(Found at Beyond the Beyond.)
- Bluetooth, Steampunk-styleNicrosin's amazing Victo...
- UFO humor informs this hilarious South African bre...
- No title
- Would Fear of Alien Invasion Trigger Mass Psychoge...
- FLURB!
- (Thanks to Blues Tea-Cha.)
- Blog of the day: Environmental Graffiti
- Is Alien Contact Imminent?You tell me.
- I've been walking around taking pictures with my n...
- Ugandan children cover Bjork's "All is Full of Lov...
- Pope: Accept death "at the hour chosen by God'Whil...
- I just watched "Maybe Logic," a heartfelt and glee...
- Flying saucers -- they're everywhere!(This reminde...
- Pedophilia in a Pill (Peter Watts)I would be willi...
- Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scienti...
- India's use of brain scans in courts dismays criti...
- Every once in a while I post a cat video here on P...
- A Fetid, Devastated Galveston - NYTimes.com
- Did evolution come before life?A rudimentary form ...
- More UFO cut-ups! Watch this space . . .
- Farewell, David Foster WallaceThe literary world w...
- Taxi drivers 'have brain sat-nav'Earlier studies h...
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4 comments:
Take a break. Read some "Calvin and Hobbes."
I love "Calvin and Hobbes," but they just don't do the trick when I need something bleak and grittily existential! ;-)
Still waiting for that top 10 list of best Sci-fi according to Mac. I'm itching for a new book!
The top-ten list is a good idea. I'll be thinking!
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